Improvement in feed-water heaters for locomotives



Patented Aug. 20, 1872. (Jiggttmegs.

UNITED STATES WILLIAM H. STANDEFORD, OF STEWARTSVILLE, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN FEED-WATER HEATERS FOR LOCOMOTIVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 130,759, dated August20, 1872.

Specification describing a new and useful Improvement in Feed-WaterHeaters for L0- eomotives, invented by WILLIAM H. STANDE- FORD, ofStewartsville, in the county of De Kalb and State of Missouri.

My invention consists in arranging feed- Water heaters constructed in amanner to specially adapt them for their functions and connections withrelation to the engines or cylinders and the smoke-stack of alocomotive, so that the water and exhaust steam shall pass through thesaid heaters to reach the boiler and smoke-stack, respectively, ashereinafter described,

' In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a front view of alocomotive, showing the ends of the engines and boiler and my improvedfeed-water heaters connected therewith. Fig. 2 is a view, partly insection, of the heater detached.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents the heaters, two of which are number of these tubes may beused, and of any suitable diameter. The casing may be so connectedwiththe heads D D that a space or chamber, F, is left between it and theends of the tubes. The feed-water is introduced in to one of thesespaces or chambers and discharged from the other, the induction andeduction apertures being marked G and H. The exhaust steam from theengine is introduced by the exhaust-pipe Z into one side of the casingand discharged directly through the exhaust-nozzle from the other, sothat the tubes are enveloped in the exhaust steam of the engine, so asto accelerate the draft in the usual way.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- The combined steam smoke-blast, and feed-

